Hello there and welcome to another edition of TBTL. This right here right now is the

show that just might be too beautiful to live. My name is Luke Burbank, I am your host joined

as always by Jen Flash Andrews. Hello Jennifer. Hi Luke. It's been quite a week here in the

Northwest. Amanda Knox returning home. All kinds of important news. None of which was discussed

during this week's TBTL. We focused on the important things like the catchiest song in the world

as identified by British scientists. Although as we will hear on this episode we don't really agree

with the list. It's questionable. Yeah. If it were American scientists I think we would have gotten

a very different list. And I have real questions about actually playing this conversation because

we are playing songs that are supposedly very catchy and there's nothing worse than when someone

drops a little earworm into your head. So I would just like to apologize in advance for what's

going to happen during the next hour and also say you're welcome. So without further ado let's get

to this week's edition of TBTL. A lot of you were upset over the weekend because we got I am the

cute one stuck in your head the Olsen twins song. But it turns out that that's not even the catchiest

song of all time. Well according to scientists in where Jen New Zealand. It's the Goldsmiths University

which I actually think is in the London. They sat down and decided to try to identify what they

thought were the 10 catchiest songs of all time. And do you know what the methodology was for this?

Well there's four criteria and that was a long long and detailed musical phrases which I think

by that they mean versus. And then multiple pitch changes in the hook or the chorus. A male vocalist

and a higher male voice making noticeable vocal efforts. So it has to be a strain on that chorus.

This was because because they said that they picked they thought guys singing in songs was important

because it was a subconscious war cry. They said psychologically we look to mend a lead us into

battle so it could be our intuitive nature to follow male fronted songs. Oh interesting. I mean

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